If you can play Hold’em, you know how boring grinding out a session can be. Unless you are a loose player, you spend more time folding hands than you do anything else. When you are looking for something with a little more action and that is a lot more fun to play, Omaha is the [...]
I have heard many people explain as Omaha, “It’s the same as Texas Hold’em, but you get 4 cards instead of two.” They then deal the cards and the person who received this information, still doesn’t really know what’s going on. While the overall concept of the game of Omaha, could be perhaps very simply [...]
A situation occurred at the World Series of Poker Europe on Thursday that reminded me the power that a big drawing hand can hold in Pot Limit Omaha. David “DevilFish” Ulliott had flopped a set of kings holding Ks-Kh-7c-2s. The flop was Kd-Jc-5d. His opponent, Markus Golser, was holding Ad-Qd-10c-4s. He had both a nut [...]
In Texas Holdem Poker, when a player looks down and sees pocket aces, the player typically does a little leap inside their head. Many players will tend to do the same thing in Pot Limit Omaha Poker when they look down at pocket aces. Unfortunately, not all hands that contain aces are strong. Let’s talk [...]
Omaha Poker is a game that is played very much like texas holdem poker but has two unique differences in overall rules. First, each player is dealt four cards. From that point, the game is played much like holdem with a flop, turn, and river. Betting occurs after each round as in holdem. At showdown, [...]
In a previous article, you were introduced to Omaha 8 or better poker. You learned the basic rules of how to play the game as well as common terminology and some various situations that you will encounter in the game. For this article, we will go over some basic strategy on how to play Omaha [...]
Omaha 8 or Better is a split pot version of regular Omaha Poker. The rules are the same as Omaha High but with one difference. In Omaha Hi-Lo, a qualifying low hand will take half the pot. A qualifying low hand is a five card hand of five unique cards eight or below. Straights and [...]